AMERICAN ATOM SECRETS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25935, 15 October 1949, Page 7

AMERICAN ATOM SECRETS

POLICY CRITICISED BY MR LILIENTHAL

GREATER CO-OPERATION URGED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The United States should lose no time in co-operating more broadly with Britain and Canada on atomic matters, said the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Mr David Lilienthal). He said he believed that the people should have facts straight from the shoulder, without any “papa knows best” nonsense. He added: “We should stop this senseless business of choking ourselves up by some of the extremes of secrecy to which we have been driven.” Mr Lilienthal said that the United States already had a considerable stock of improved atomic weapons. It also should try to develop to the utmost the greatest weapon of all—“that working faith in the spirit of men called democracy.” GERM WARFARE ATOMIC BOMB SAID TO BE OBSOLETE STATEMENT BY HEAD OF WORLD HEALTH BODY (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. October 13. Dr. Brock Chisholm. Director-Gen-eral of the World Health Organisation, said to-day that developments in bacteriological warfare had made the atomic bomb and all other weapons obsolete. 'Dr. Chisholm told the press: "There would be no possibility of anyone actually winning another war, and most of the human race would not survive.” He said that there was no known defence against bacteriological forms of warfare, and no possibility of controlling them. “They have changed the entire concept of power, and the whole method of competitive survival has become obsolete,” he added.